Hook and eye.



N0- 785,785. PATBNTED MAR. 28, 1905. W. G. WILLIAMSON.

HOOK AND EYE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29. 1904. v

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Patented March 28, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

WVILLIAM C. WILLIAMSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 785,785, dated March 28, 1905.

Application filed June 29, 1904. Serial No. 214,584.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. WILLIAM- soN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in hooks and eyes of the class used for securing together the meeting edges of garments; and its object is to produce a device of this class which shall have certain advantages, which Will appear more fully and at large in the course of this specification.

To this end my invention consists in certain novel features, which are shown in the accompanying drawings as embodied in the preferred form of construction.

In the aforesaid drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a hook and eye, and Fig. 2 is an edge view thereof looking in the direction of the arrow 2 in Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A represents the hook, and B the eye. These two are adapted to be secured to the meeting edges of a garment in the ordinary manner, eyelets a a b I) being provided upon the hook and eye, respectively, by which they may be sewed to the garment. The hook is formed of a single piece of wire which is bent back upon itself to form the hook portion c the two strands of the wire being carried back, as at a to form a shank, one end of the wire at this point terminating in the eyelet a, the other end being of su'fficient length to form the eyelet a and a tongue portion a The end a of the tongue is preferably formed with a reverse curve, so as to present a smooth edge at this point in order that the eye B may be readily drawn between it and the hook. The configuration of the hook is clearly indicated in Fig. 1, although its exact form is not material to my invention. It will be noticed that all of the bends of the hook are in one plane, which is of considerable importance in a device of this class inasmuch as all of its parts can then lie close to the garment, leaving no projecting portions, as is common in the hook of the ordinary form. The eye B is also constructed of a single piece of wire bent to form the loop 6 for engagement with the hook and with the eyelets b 1), extending in planes at right angles to the plane of the loop 6 In securing the eye upon the hook it can be drawn between the tongue and the reverted end a of the hook inasmuch as the tongue a yields when pressure is supplied thereto on account of the elasticity of the wire, and when the eye has been drawn past the tongue it cannot be accidentally disengaged from the hook because of the tongue a.

By folding the wire back upon itself to form the hook and shank portion strength is given to the hook at the place where it is most needed, and because the endsof the wire are in the same plane as the hook and shank portions they can be bent to form the attaching-eyelets and the tongue, with all of the parts lying in the one plane.

I realize that considerable variation is possible in the details of this construction without departing from the spirit' of the invention, and I therefore do not intend to limit myself to the specific form herein shown and described. I

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As an article of manufacture, a hook composed of a single wire doubled upon itself to form the hook and shank portions, the end of one strand of the wire terminating in an eye and the other end being bent to form an eye and carried beyond said eye in the form of a tongue, terminating at a point adjacent to the end of the hook portion, all of the parts lying in one and the same plane.

2. As an article of manufacture, a hook composed of a single wire doubled upon itself to form the hook and shank portions, the end of one strand of the Wire terminating in an application for Letters Patent, at Chicago, in eye and the other end being bent to form an the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this eye and carried beyond said eye in the form 25th day of June, A. D. 1904.

of a tongue, terminating at a point adjacent WILLIAM C. WILLIAMSON. 5 to the end of the hook portion, and bent back Witnesses:

upon itself to form a rounded edge. 'OHAS. O. SHERVEY,

In Witness whereof I have signed the above KATHLEEN CORNWALL. 

